Empress Anna Galeria Faustina the elder (d.141 AD)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
750 x 480 x 295 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486376
Summary
A Renaissance portrait head of the Elder Faustina, wife of Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD) probably copied from a coin. Her head is turned slightly to the right with a proud, imperious expression and her hair is elaborately dressed. The head is of fine grained Parian marble; the bust is of fine-grained yellowish Parian marble.
Provenance
?Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont, thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72), arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M. Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
70 (painted on front of socle)